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#151 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why is GNR so ashamed of (most) of their past? » 194 weeks ago
Maybe because they don't want to dilute their discography with demos that anyone but diehard fans would have any interest in. No one is asking Stephen King to share his first draft of Carrie with the world. A shitty, muffled recording from 1984 may make us giddy, but outside of that, probably very little interest. The $1000 AFD boxset that is now going for $250 is a perfect example of this phenomenon. How many forum members bought the set versus downloaded mp3s of the material they wanted? I'm going to be its substantial, and enough justification why the business would be less inclined to release even more esoteric material.
#152 Re: The Sunset Strip » House of The Dragon » 194 weeks ago
I think Adam Driver is a conventionally unattractive man, and he’s had an incredibly successful career. Plenty of male actors have fit this mold. Women too, though obviously to a lesser extent. Rosie O’Donnell, Melissa McCarthy, and Lena Dunham being current examples of ugly women who excel in Hollywood.
Audiences like attractive people. They especially like attractive women, even women movie goers prefer attractive female actors. That’s the way the world is and has always been.
With regard to the show my only complaints are around Alicient Hightower and House Velaryion. Alicient is supposed to be the most gorgeous and desired woman in Westeros. Her actor is pretty, but she’s not in the league of Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Selma Hayek, Halle Berry “sexiest woman alive” league. Emilia Clarke and Natalie Dormer had that look, so the casting confuses me.
Silver hair and violet eyes are the trademark of all Valyrians. The show didn’t want to burden the actors with violet contact lenses, so I get the lack of purple eyes. But like all historical societies, they looked similar, so now having a “black” Valyrian family in house Velaryion seems pandering. Especially if they follow the books in parentage, that’s going to make the claim future characters are “bastards” a hell of a lot harder to argue. Seems like an unnecessary change that is going to cause problems for the story any decent writer should have stopped at the first mention.
#153 Re: The Sunset Strip » House of The Dragon » 194 weeks ago
Yea, the dude playing Daemon is quite fugly. But us fugly dudes need screen representation too! 
#154 The Sunset Strip » House of The Dragon » 194 weeks ago
- Randall Flagg
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Watched the series premiere last night. Hard to be objective after what HBO did to seasons 7 and 8 of GoT, but I liked what I saw yesterday. I guess there's less of a chance for HBO to fuck this up since the entire story is already written. Certainly much more potential to cater to the political intrigue and backstabbing that made GoT great since 90% of this story will take place in King's Landing, with only minor skirmishes outside its borders having any weight to the overall story. Fans will go nuts when Cregan Stark makes his eventual entrance.
#155 Re: The Sunset Strip » Anne Heche dead at 53 » 195 weeks ago
Ambulance video looked like she had severe burns on her body
This article also says it's normal protocol to wrap a burn victim into a cloth "body bag" to help prevent infection.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038405/
In all but a handfull of cases that have made the news, runaway cars are almost always the drivers fault and rarely connected to vehicle error. If she had an internal combustion engine she could have just turned the car off if it was speeding up. She could have shifted it to neutral. I think that she was allegedly boozing on a podcast before the accident, and was doing coke and fentanyl, and had a history of mental illness are all better aligned to Occom's razor than hackers killing a C list actress.
#156 Re: The Sunset Strip » Anne Heche dead at 53 » 195 weeks ago
Triple H wrote:Did you guys see the footage of her unzipping her body bag and trying to climb out of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX1xFRMXrks
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Modern cars can be hijacked electronically and set to max speed and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
But I don't know why they would want to kill Anne Heche.
Was her car electric? Self driving? I wasn't aware mini coopers have that capacity. The fire seems to indicate an internal combustion engine as a battery shouldn't have resulted in any fire.
#157 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 196 weeks ago
Oh look, the warrant leaked.
One of the things he’s under investigation for is
18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
Clearly it was insanity for anyone to suggest he might have been involved in distributing state secrets. Those folk were way off the mark.
Yes, that’s totally comparable to espionage and the treason you parroted as a totally valid scenario. It’s just very sad people can think as you do and be so painfully unaware of their bias and partisan view.
Clinton was absolutely, indisputably guilty of that very example you gave. Yet no raid, let alone a formal interview.
Keeping pushing unfounded conspiracy. The forum needs a new SLC or Mitch to keep things interesting. Glad you’re willing to volunteer.
#158 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 196 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:We're talking about the National Archives here, no top secret blue prints to a working antimatter engine and warpdrive.
Want to walk this back?
No, do you think Garland revealed something serious? Let's see what the warrant says and what documents Trump had. What do you think were in these documents? Or is it because Garland said "nuclear" you assume it's something not found on Wikipedia. Continue to believe all the hyperbole without anything to qualify it.
You're now in the same bead as SlashFro, saying Trump was going to sell these. You're just as coo coo for cocoa puffs as the people who think Democrats are fucking toddlers in Pizza shops. You guys accept any negative story if its against a politician you dislike, and handwave evidence of wrongdoing of people you like. It's really sad and quite frankly a shame.
#159 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 196 weeks ago
The entire Newsweek story from anonymous LE sources sure reads like it's trying to mitigate the damage the FBI & DOJ has done with it. Sounds like they thought would be no big deal and are now trying to isolate it from Garland. https://t.co/giFEEDs4lm
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 10, 2022
If Garland didn't know and Biden wasn't given a courtesy heads up, that is outrageous. People act like getting a warrant is all the justification you need, but in the same mindset argue Breonna Taylor was murdered. How many wacky rulings has a judge made, and because agents found a federal judge willing to sign off on a warrant against Trump, no further evaluation is needed.
If true, this is truly a rogue action, and shame on the agents who are now putting Garland, Biden and Democrats in a toxic political situation. We're talking about the National Archives here, no top secret blue prints to a working antimatter engine and warpdrive.
#160 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 196 weeks ago
I’m not saying the search was invalid. I have no idea. But you’re suggesting Trump was going to sell classified information. That is an outrageous claim not based on any evidence. My point was that despite objective evidence of the FBI acting inappropriately, you’re choosing to dismiss any possibility this might be improper, and go a step further by suggesting Trump did this to sell classified information.
You don’t see how outrageous, partisan and conspiracy theory drivel such a claim is?

